76th New York State Volunteers
"The Cortland Regiment"

The Seventy-Sixth Regiment, New York State Volunteers, was raised from the small towns and farms of central New York State. During its three years of existence it fought with the Army of the Potomac in most of the battles in the eastern theater of the war, from Fredericksburg to Petersburg. At the Battle of Gettysburg, the 76th was "first on the field", at the right flank of the entire army, and suffered terrible casualties as a result. The men of the regiment were mustered out or transferred to other regiments between July 1864 and January 1865, at which point the regiment ceased to exist.

About the 76th New York - entries
from Fox's Losses,
Dyer's Compendium and Phisterer's New York in the War of Rebellion

A Report on the Charges against Colonel Green - a letter to the Gazette and Banner from a non-soldier "regimental correspondent" H.D.C., regarding the charges which resulted in the removal of the regiment's first Colonel in June 1862.

Regimental Roster

Choose the letter above for information on soldiers from the 76th NYSV whose last names begin with the letter.

The unit roster on this website is initially made up of information from the 1901 New York State Adjutant General's Report.
The
original source material may be found on the New York State Military
Museum's website.

The files for each letter are being annotated with later or additional information about the soldiers, where known, and hyperlinked sub-pages are provided for each soldier for whom we have biographical information, pictures or additional documents.

B. Conrad Bush has a great deal of transcribed information on members of the 76th NY. He is willing to share and would appreciate contributions from others. A list of material in his files is available.

Vertical File at Gettysburg National Military Park - see "Index to Regiment Files in the Vertical File Collection, Gettysburg National Military Park Library" - file number 6-NY76 76th New York Inf. Reg.

Another website on the 76th NY by Michael Burnett, part of GenWeb Ontario County.

There's a re-enactment group doing Company H of the 76th NY (one of the Cherry Valley companies).

Print
Resources on the 76th NY

Smith, Abram P. History of the Seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, What It Indured and Accomplished, Containing Descriptions of Its Twenty-five Battles, Its Marches, Its Camp and Bivouac Scenes.... Syracuse, NY:
Truair, Smith & Miles, l867. 429 pages. This book was republished in the 1980's, but the reprinting now appears to be out of print. (The biographies of officers linked to the roster files on this web site are taken from this book).A
PDF version of the Regimental History can be downloaded from the
Archive.org website - note: it's 24MB, so it will take a while to
download.
Note: the following sources have not been checked, but claim to have the regimental history available: "Mill Creek Mercantile" - "War Stuff Books", and Stan Clark Military Books, 915 Fairview Ave., Gettysburg , PA17325 , Email scmb@mail.wideopen.net

Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Vol. 2. Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon, 1900. See pp. 609-17 for a photo of the regimental monument at the Gettysburg National Military Park and addresses delivered at its dedication.

New York (State). Adjutant General's Office - Annual Report...for the Year 1901 - No. 29. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon, 1902. See pages 181-422 for the alphabetical roster of the regiment. (The roster pages on this web site are based on this report).

Northrop, John W. Chronicles From the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864. Wichita, KS: Wining, 1904. 228 pages.

Phisterer, Frederick, comp. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Vol. 4. Albany, NY: Weed and Parsons, 1890. See pp. 2796-2813 for a brief history of the regiment and a roster of officers.

Lt. Col. Grover Civil War Roundtable
Cortland, NY

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